It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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